Thread: skywest hiring
View Single Post
Old 01-05-2009 | 01:18 PM
  #60  
rickair7777's Avatar
rickair7777
Prime Minister/Moderator
Veteran: Navy
 
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 45,131
Likes: 797
From: Engines Turn or People Swim
Default

Originally Posted by BHopper88
Rickair,

I have to say thanx for all your support to all of the Junior FOs on the bottom of the seniority lists, I hope you tell this to one or a group of us in person. I mean where can we just go out and find jobs just like that? Maybe you should get a job fair together for us that has all these odd jobs out there so we can do them in our spare time, maybe you might need me to paint your house or mow your lawn.

Some of the part time jobs at the retail stores are not hiring either, or if they are not someone like me with an education and part time schedule that I could work between my flying. Oh wait I could go back to instructing, but my school isnt hiring or like some friends wont let or unable to hire them back. Oh and I forgot that is located on the east coast and I live out west.

Plus, why is it my fault that a senior capt couldn't seem to manage their money deep into their career? Im am not saying I need or want a hand out, or that a capt should reduce their hours to possibly save a job or two down the road (yet there is no guarantee the next day or down the road) but a little respect would be nice, that we all are trying to keep our jobs, while all the rumors about furlough are out there day after day. It's flat out survival from paycheck to paycheck for some. I guess its just simple you forgot or dont care what its like for us on the bottom of the lists for you to say that it would hurt any less.
I don't say anything here that I wouldn't say in person. I have no stake in this either way...I'm too senior to get furloughed (barring major catastrophe) but I rarely fly more than 75 anyway.

I've been at the bottom of two lists in the last five years. I've been real close to furlough, and was caught between jobs on 9/11...ie no recall to look forward to.

Junior Regional FO is a crap job...you'd be surprised how easy it would be to replace that income, and get a better QOL in the bargain.